Poople #582025-10-11
Poople #58: DAZE to POOP
The shortest 5-step ladder from DAZE to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #58.
Play Poople #58
#58 DAZE
D
A
Z
E
Poople #58 answer: DAZE to POOP
Hidden
Answer path
daze
doze
dome
pome
pomp
poop
5 movesHardFirst hint: change the 2nd letter.
Path analysis
This route reaches POOP in 5 moves. Breadth-first search reaches every route with fewer moves first, so POOP cannot be reached in fewer than 5 moves from DAZE.
- Moves
- 5
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Shortest paths
- 2
The dictionary has 2 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.
- Move 1: DAZE → DOZE — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
- Move 2: DOZE → DOME — change the 3rd letter from Z to M.
- Move 3: DOME → POME — change the 1st letter from D to P.
- Move 4: POME → POMP — change the 4th letter from E to P.
- Move 5: POMP → POOP — change the 3rd letter from M to O.
This Poople puzzle starts from DAZE and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 5 moves.